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The best haunted house in Los Angeles depends on your budget and how you like to be scared. Big productions run from $55 to $250, home haunts are often free, and horror escape rooms such as ours at Maze Rooms take groups of 2-8 players. Scary haunted houses in LA come...

Trunk or treat is Halloween trick-or-treating moved into a parking lot: costumed kids go from car to car while volunteers hand out candy from decorated trunks. In LA, events run mostly at churches, schools, parks and city venues in late October. Search for trunk or...

The best scary Halloween costumes are built on one recognizable character, a silhouette that holds up in dim light and two or three well-chosen details. They should let you walk, crouch and see where you're going. For a horror escape room, keep it simple: mostly...

The short answer: start with a clean, dry, firm pumpkin, paint two thin coats of acrylic, and finish with a clear sealer. That is the simple rule behind painted pumpkin ideas that last. Below you will find cute pumpkin painting ideas, pumpkin face ideas, no-carve...

To carve a pumpkin well, pick a design that fits your skill level before you buy, choose a pumpkin with no soft spots and a flat bottom, cut the opening in the bottom, scoop and thin the wall to about 1/2 to 1 inch, transfer a template onto a dry pumpkin and cut along...

A pumpkin patch near me in Los Angeles usually means one of two things: a small lot that pops up for October, or a real farm with rides, mazes and animals. If you want a quick photo and a pumpkin, pick a lot. If you want a few hours outdoors, pick a farm. Either way,...

Quick answer: the easiest Halloween outfit uses clothes you already own: black layers with face paint for a skeleton, a hoodie with a horn headband, or a leather jacket with sunglasses. For an escape room, pick comfortable halloween costumes for adults that let you...

Somehow, the Los Angeles art world has developed into a peculiar system. Museums like the Getty or LACMA have a reputation of having long queues on weekends. The Norton Simon Museum is located right next to Los Angeles and holds masterpieces of Rembrandt, Raphael, Van...

When someone hears 'library', he or she usually thinks about a building. The Huntington Library Los Angeles knows is a 130-acre estate in San Marino with a rare book collection that features a Gutenberg Bible, a gallery housing one of the most recognized portraits in...

Here is a figure that changes everything. Griffith Park is over 4,000 acres in size, which means it is about five times bigger than Central Park and among the largest urban parks in North America. Most Angelenos have explored less than one tenth of Griffith Park in...

Almost everyone who visits arrives in daylight, parks poorly, walks the terraces, photographs the Hollywood Sign, looks over the city, and leaves before sunset. Meaning the vast majority of visitors miss the whole point of an observatory, which is that it works after...

The art is amazing, the building a landmark, but what determines how a day at The Broad Los Angeles turns out is whether you grasped the reservation process before heading downtown. This article takes access first, then art, which flips the usual guide structure. The...

In January 2025, the Palisades Fire went through the canyon until it reached the edge of a Roman villa. Seventeen staff members of The Getty Villa Los Angeles decided to remain in their workplace during the night to prevent any fire spread. Both the buildings and the...

Museums traditionally open at the door. The Getty Center opens at a tram. You leave your car in the structure at the bottom of a hill in Brentwood, board an automated white train, and spend five minutes climbing the chaparral while the city disappears under you. By...

Get to Exposition Park on a Saturday and watch the visitors go through. Families head from the parking structures toward the dinosaurs at one museum and the space shuttle at another, and in-between both those spots, they walk straight past a low and elegant building,...